Quotes from Taylor Swift

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.

I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.

I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!

When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.

I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.